Grp8 Proposal

Motivation

Terrorism has been on the rise since the late 1900s to today. Using the open-source Global Terrorism Database (GTD), we hope to explore and visualize the various trends of terrorism events around the world. We hope to understand the nature of these events using information such as the date and location of the incident, the weapons used, the number of casualties, and the group or individual responsible for these events.

Objectives

1. Provide interactive platform for data analysis

2. Represent terrorism data in easy to understand visualizations.

3. Discover insights that can be derived from visualizations.

Data Source

1. Contains information on over 170,000 terrorist attacks

2. Includes data on more than 83,000 bombings, 18,000 assassinations, and 11,000 kidnappings since 1970

3. Includes data on at least 45 variables for each case, with more recent incidents including information on more than 120 variables

4. Over 4,000,000 news articles and 25,000 news sources were reviewed to collect incident data from 1998 to 2016 alone

Deliverables

Analysis will be provided in the form of a visualization platform.

Users will be able to make changes to various parameters to do exploratory analysis.

Graphs and charts will be used to showcase the various difference and correlations of data.

Main packages used will be ggplot2 and R Shiny,

References

1. https://www.kaggle.com/START-UMD/gtd

2. http://start.umd.edu/gtd/about/